DEI Debate
A place to share your thoughts on DEI policy in corporate America, Academia and in Western society at large. I started this blog on Lemmy after a moderator at HackerNews came into a comment section and reprimanded posters for sharing their own experiences with DEI enforcers at their workforce.
This post was partiuclarly informative as a poster explained a negative experience he had at Dropbox. However, the moderator did not like the tone of the thread and decided to shut it down.
I found that to be an anti-free speech position as this comment section was nothing but respectable. This led me to ask, where can we actually talk about DEI issues and their impact on our career progression and free speech rights? Certainly not on HackerNews, certainly not on Reddit.
So I am going to try to make this community a place where we can host productive debate and actually discuss these issues in a polite and civil manner. YOUR experience matters and I'd love for you to share it!
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Lol. Did you not follow the recent Supreme Court case dealing with race based admissions at universities? The bias that administrators were showing in favor of URMs was extreme
One reason why I made this community is because on a GRE subreddit, the mod would actually lock threads that even talked about how URMs can get accepted into graduate programs with low scores compared to whites and Asians
So I will give you credit for explaining everything in a step by step fashion, but it's a fact that university administrators were weighting candidates based on race, which, thankfully, was recently made illegal.
I also would like to point out that I haven't attacked you for your position, yet if I were to explain my own anti dei position, I'm at risk of being fired from my job, doxxed, etc. So the spirit of free speech is essentially dead when it comes to anything surrounding "people of color" or any other group that gets to claim oppression in order to get money and preferential treatment
If they didn't force a requirement, Unis would "only take the most qualified candidates", which over 90%+ of the time would bar Black and Hispanic non-athletes because it so happens that they didn't have the generational wealth required to have both a stable home environment and access to good schooling, meanwhile the white students with parents and grandparents who got access to extremely affordable property investments can coast right into college